White Paper
This technical white paper explores a head-to-head performance and resiliency analysis between Lightbits software-defined storage and Ceph Storage. Conducted in a controlled lab environment using identical hardware and a three-node cluster configuration, the study evaluates how each platform handles latency-sensitive block workloads under realistic conditions, including sustained concurrency and node failure events.
The findings reveal that while Ceph remains a highly flexible, unified storage solution for file and object data, Lightbits delivers superior performance for performance-critical block storage, characterized by:
- Lower, more stable latency for canonical 4K workloads.
- Linear scaling of IOPS as client concurrency and job counts increase.
- Rapid, predictable recovery with minimal impact on active applications during node failures.
